NHS Foundation Trusts: Applications

Lord Warner: My right honourable friend the Secretary of State for Health has decided to support the applications of 24 National Health Service trusts in becoming NHS foundation trusts.
	The applications will now be sent to the office of the independent regulator. The final decision on whether a trust can become an NHS foundation trust rests with the independent regulator.
	The NHS trusts concerned are:
	Addenbrooke's NHS Trust
	Basildon & Thurrock General Hospitals NHS Trust
	Bradford Hospitals NHS Trust
	Calderdale & Huddersfield NHS Trust
	City Hospitals Sunderland NHS Trust
	Countess Of Chester Hospital NHS Trust
	Doncaster & Bassetlaw Hospitals NHS Trust
	Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Trust
	Guy's & St Thomas' Hospital NHS Trust
	Homerton University Hospital NHS Trust
	King's College Hospital NHS Trust
	Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Trust
	North Tees & Hartlepool NHS Trust
	Papworth Hospital NHS Trust
	Peterborough Hospitals NHS Trust
	Rotherham General Hospitals NHS Trust
	Royal Devon & Exeter Health Care NHS Trust
	Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
	Southern Derbyshire Acute Hospital Services NHS Trust
	Stockport NHS Trust
	The Queen Victoria Hospital NHS Trust
	The Royal Marsden NHS Trust
	University College London Hospitals NHS Trust
	University Hospital Birmingham NHS Trust